Newsweek: Soldier Rap, The Pulse of War

[Rose Siding]

June 13 issue - It took only a few ambushes, roadside bombs and corpses for Neal Saunders to know what he had to do: turn the streets of Baghdad into rap music.....

Rap is becoming the pulse of the Iraq war, as the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison were for Vietnam. The essential difference is that new electronic gear is giving today's troops the ability to create a soundtrack of their own rather than having a mass-produced version flown in from home. Stateside rap sounds tame to the guys serving in Iraq anyway....
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It's about the cost of survival: "Soldiers are dying every day, that's why we ain't smiling. I'm the one you see on TV / Army infantry, one arm holding my sleeve from a previous injury / Bloody desert combat fatigues, dusty and ammoless M-16 with a shredded sling /... Hit in the head and shoulder but still taking deep breaths / 'Cause I'm in Kevlar and sappy plates in my flak vest."
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"I'm a pit bull at night, I'm out to gitcha / Devil Dog mentality bitin' whoever's witcha / I taste blood, I'm tired of marchin' in the mud / I throw down my 9 and now I'm pumpin' slugs." Refusing to give in is what the music is all about.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8101421/site/newsweek/

[understandinglife]

1. rap, zap, squish, dittly dee, zap, smash, splat, ....... real-time, Iraq.

Caveat: this poem is to MSNBC not you, our DU messenger.

that kid didn't care
didn't feel a thing as my .50 rip'd its torse and shattered its brain.

it's mother didn't know
because the frag
distracted her thought
and mangled her heart while dispatching her soul.

it's so kool
pumping the slugs
as the car passes
and another iraqi daddy disassembles
into a million shreds of muscle and marrow.

and the cd will make millions
cause freeper chicken shits will
bop and sway as they chug their swill beer
and quote jesus and search the pornnet and dish space wondering
"we're the hell can I find paris sucking another..........."

yeap, MSNBC; that rap is such a with-it distraction from Bush's slaughter and vaporize march to freedom.....so glad you decided it was news. And, how's michael doing this weekend......


Peace.


Those wonderful little feet aren't dancing anymore, Mr murderer Bush


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."